Dhaka May 4, 2026, 2:47 am
Leading commercial banks provide consumer finance that surpasses the growth rate of banks' total lending violating the central bank instruction, according to an investigation.
The bank in a statement on Wednesday and SMS sent to its customers apologised for the inconvenience.
The overall capital-to-risk weighted-asset ratio (CRAR) of all the banks operating in Bangladesh came down to 10.50 per cent on December 31, 2018 from 10.83 per cent on the same day the year before, according to the latest st
The governor made the remarks in response to a question after the inauguration session of the ‘Janata Bank Annual Conference-2019’ at the Krishibid Institute Auditorium in Dhaka on Wednesday,
Under the guideline, authorised dealer (AD) banks or individually-owned firms, or joint ventures or limited companies will be eligible to apply to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) for becoming ADGs.
Taka keeps weakening against dollar
Representatives of the bank announced the new feature at a press conference held at the Intercontinental Dhaka
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will appeal to the court to collect necessary documents for the 56 cases filed by ACC in connection with fraud in the Basic Bank. As part of the next investigation, the ACC officials will ask
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is giving tax exemption facility to Grameen Bank again for 5 years
As per the bill, the EPZ workers will be allowed to form association to place their demands
Of the 15 banks, four are state-owned, while the remaining eleven are private commercial banks
The governor added that measures have been taken to increase the central bank’s surveillance on all the banks
Regarding wilful loan defaulters, he said it has been going on for a significant amount of time, but his ministry is now working to drastically reduce the amount of non-performing loans (NPLs)
FBCCI president Shafiul Islam said interest rates on lending could not be reduced to single digits, but there is a tendency to increase the lending rates
The number of agent banking accounts across the country has doubled at the end of 2018 from 2017 as banks are gradually expanding their agent banking activities.
Managing Director and CEO of the recently approved Community Bank Bangladesh Ltd Masihul Huq Chowdhury, speaks about the bank's vision and the challenges it faces as a new bank in Bangladesh's banking sector.
Bangladesh Bank organized a meeting with the managing directors of all the banks, as well as legal experts at its office on Wednesday
“We will arrange special audit for each and every bank. We will start the work with three audit farms. We’ll look into – who have taken the loans . . . we want to bring the banking sector to a position where there will be onl
SWIFT’s comments came after the New York Fed on Friday agreed to provide “technical assistance” to Bangladesh Bank in its lawsuit against RCBC
Bangladesh Bank (BB) today filed a case against Philippine Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) with a New York court to recover the whole money heisted from the central bank’s account with Federal Reserve Bank of New
